Sabrina Bates > Sabrina's Quotes

“Guards are of no use in a library.
Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I'm not ill like that,” she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help.
“Then it what way?”
“I,uh...” Her face was so hot she thought it would melt onto the floor. Oh you idiot. “My monthly cycles finally came back!”
His face suddenly matched hers and he stepped away, dragging his hand through his short hair. “I-if...Then I'll take my leave,” he stammered, and bowed. Celaena raised an eyebrow, and then, despite herself, smiled as he left the room as quick as his feet could go without running, tripping slightly in the doorway as he staggered into the rooms beyond.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You always wear that necklace," he said. "Is it another gift?" Though she wore gloves, he glanced at her hand - where the amethyst ring always sat - and the spark died from his eyes.
"No." She covered the amulet with her hand. "I found it in my jewellery box and liked the look of it, you insufferably territorial man.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“They won the war but lost the peace,”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Revenge is an infection of the spirit.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“That's stupid."
"That's people.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Suffering is easier to endure when shared.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy...or maybe it's compassion...is the wrong choice.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?”
“I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.”
It didn’t.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay